He came down therefore to Canada, to seek for more promising materials.

Here he met with exactly the opposite difficulty--most of the tribes were more or less civilized, and had, at any rate, advanced so far in knowledge of the world as to be unwilling to put themselves into his power.

He soon saw that the best way of securing such a party as he wished, would be to find one Indian, whom he might make to some degree a confidant and partner in the enterprise, and who would naturally possess a stronger influence with the rest, than he could himself obtain.

It was a long time before he succeeded in doing this; but when he did, it was to perfection.

An island about fifty miles from Cacouna, called Moose Island, was then, and still is, occupied by a settlement of Ojibways.